11/11/2007

Zero Degree Turn

Posted by Andrew |

For the month of Ramadan, Iranian state television aired a mini-series called "Zero Degree Turn." The story line revolved around the Iranian embassy in Paris during World War II, and a love story between an Iranian-Palestinian man and a French-Jewish woman.

The full article written for the New York Times can be seen here

Below is a brief clip of the series, to watch more click here.



Interesting storyline with the recent statements by President Ahmadinejad of Iran. Goes to show that despite Western generalizations of the country or the regime, a diversity of opinions and thoughts exists.

1 comments:

Bruce Kratky said...

I wonder what the "Real Iran" political situation is? I listen to all of the outlets available to me whether it be right or left. I am constantly reading the New York Times, WSJ, BBC, Washington Post, LA Times, watching ABC-CBS-NBC-CNBC-MSNBC-Fox-CNN, PBS News Hour, Charlie Rose and more. I have to think that in this collection there is some sort of "actual" understanding of Iranian politics and the nation of Iran as a whole. That there is diversity of view in Iran is encouraging, but do the diversity advocates control the levers of power? According to all the sources I read they do not. I think that the "West's" understanding, or better misunderstanding of Iran, is perhaps imposed. The western press we know is "free." Free at least from governmental control. All branches of government, save the Supreme Court, attempt to spin their views to the press, but the press is pretty savy and the branches don't get away with much, especially if the listeners are using multiple sources. The confusion regarding Iran and its "heart for the future" is imposed by their (Iran's) state run, censored media and news. All we can do is listen and wonder what it means when one of them "pulls a power lever" that we are confused or threatened by. Iran's president is overtly threatening Isreal. He is not being silenced by his bosses. What does that mean? Hezbolah is killing our ground troops, Lebonese Citizens in Beruit, and Isrealies according to western reports, or do we accept at face value Iran's official view that they are entirely innocent and that "George" is lying as usual? Perhaps this "diverse" movie is being shown for political reasons in Iran so that they "look" more moderate while still advocating for the destruction of Isreal, the continued uprising in Iran, the pursuit of atomic weapons, and the killing of American troops. I just don't know. However, I just can't place much faith in my "one source" of state controlled information about Iran coming from Iran. Where and who should I turn to now for the truth?

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